vii, 550 pages : 26 cm

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The time coordinate in Einstein's restricted theory of relativity / J.D. North -- General relativity and time in the solar system / G.C. McVittie -- Zeit als physikalischer begriff / F. Hund -- Time in particle physics / J.G. Taylor -- Time in statistical physics and special relativity / P.T. Landsberg -- The myth of the passage of time / D. Park -- Time asymmetry, time reversal, and irreversibility / M. Bunge -- No paradox in the theory of time anisotropy / O. Costa de Beauregard -- Pierre Curie's principle of one-way process / L.L. Whyte -- In defense of the direction of time / K.G. Denbigh -- Creative time / S. Watanabe -- Temporal order as the origin of spatial order in embryos / B.C. Goodwin -- Time in the evolutionary process / J. Maynard Smith -- The measurement of perceptual durations / R. Efron -- Oscillations as possible basis for time perception / E. Poppel -- Processing of a temporal information and the cognitive theory of time experience / J.A. Michon -- The psychophysical structure of temporal information / P. Meredith -- The dimensions of the sensible present / H.A.C. Dobbs -- Time, time stance, and existence / B.S. Aaronson -- Personality and the psychology of time / R.H. Knapp -- The notion of the present / A.N. Prior -- Instants and intervals / C.L. Hamblin -- The fiction of instants / M. Capek -- On the reality of becoming / E. Cassirer -- Whitehead and the philosophy of time / W. Mays -- The deification of time / S.G.F. Brandon -- The Darwinian revolution in the concept of time / F.C. Haber -- Temporal attitudes in four Negro subcultures / H.B. Green -- On Hegel: a study in sorcery / E. Voegelin -- Time and the modern self: Descartes, Rousseau, Beckett / G. Sebba -- Time and the modern self: a change in dramatic form / T. Ungvari -- Introduction / J.T. Fraser -- The psychological effects of rapid shifts in temporal referents / S.J. Blatt -- Evaluation of Circadian Dyschronism during Transmeridian flights / A. Reinberg -- Some factors in the production of Dysrhythmia and disorientation associated with rapid latitudinal transfer / W. Gooddy -- Discussion notes on the lecture by Dr. Gooddy / G. Schaltenbrand

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